Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT WILL IT REQUIRE, SHORT OF SENDING IN THE U.S. Air Force, to halt Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Clearly it will take measures sterner than the U.N. economic sanctions imposed three weeks ago. Defiant Serb gunners last week turned the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into hell on earth, killing at least 30 people and injuring hundreds more. Thousands of shells blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the 300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted less than two weeks...
...quintessential yuppie drama for the '80s had begun to grow a bit thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...
...quintessential yuppie drama for the '80s had begun to grow a bit thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...
...Jerry Sterner's off-Broadway comedy turned a lot of weary Wall Street players into enthusiastic playgoers two seasons ago. It managed to disapprove of Larry while giving him all the best lines and, in the end, the winning position in a classic '80s confrontation: ruthless raider vs. responsible corporation. Larry's target of opportunity is staid, gently paternalistic New England Wire & Cable. Only one man could possibly be its CEO, and, sure enough, Gregory Peck has the job. His "Jorgy" Jorgenson is as stiff as Larry is slinky, a man who's all stature and no smarts. Luckily...
...there is a moral to all of this, it could be that in today's political climate, men may weep, but women must prove themselves made of sterner stuff...